Las Vegas has been through many reinventions — the Rat Pack era, the family-friendly moment, the uber-luxe resort era. But the profound, post-recession Vegas reinvention that has gone most unremarked upon to date is not something the Vegas tourist authorities like talking about: It's the revenue-generation...

"We've got magic to do," says the Leading Player in "Pippin," the eclectic and bizarre musical artifact from 1972 that retains a remarkably special place in the hearts of audiences, including those who were not born, or even conceived, when Ben Vereen first essayed the role with the great choreographer...

Thodos Dance Chicago's 15th annual "New Dances" program made a strong showing this year in performances Saturday and Sunday at the Athenaeum Theatre. On Sunday, the eight Thodos dancer-choreographers (and guest choreographer Brian McGinnis) showed they've got the right stuff — and in some cases,...

One of the tragedies of our segregated city is that, though the physical distance between white and African-American cultures is small, the artistic chasm can be huge. An August Wilson play produced on the North Side will have almost no black viewers. And few whites joined 43-year-old Muntu Dance...

The Joffrey Academy of Dance has put out an open call for works by choreographers of color to be entered in its Winning Works Choreographic Competition. The sixth annual competition seeks to recognize "talented and emerging ALAANA (African, Latino, Asian, Arab and Native American) choreographers...

NEW YORK — The message of "Amazing Grace" — that the most despicable, slave-owning wretch can see the light and the errors of past ways and become a force for reconciliation — is an aspiration devoutly to be wished for, given the deep-seated racial divisions in the union, rolling back to the era...

“Fun Home,” the deeply emotional musical about the richly complex early life of the cartoonist Alison Bechdel and a Tony Award game-changer in terms of its sourcing from a graphic novel, its all-female composing team and the progressive self-actualization of its lesbian protagonist, emerged a big...

“Fun Home,” the moving new musical with a book and lyrics by Lisa Kron, music by Jeanine Tesori and the subject of the early family life of lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel, was nominated for a 2014-15 best musical Tony Award Tuesday, where it will compete against “The Visit,” a macabre musical...

The biting satirical musical that mocks Mormons has finally come to the heart of Mormonlandia, starting a sold-out, two-week run Tuesday at a Salt Lake City theater two blocks from the church's flagship temple and headquarters.